FREDERICK MORGAN

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Leviathan swam on the brimming deep, a strong-girt island all his own: little he cared how Job might weep confronting Yahweh in his deep, or how the Lord would banish sleep from desperate eyes that seek his throne, Leviathan dozed on the ancient deep, Dreaming the Lord was his alone.

Dialogue

The Tartar horsemen shake their spears in darkening dreams we've shared, dear friend, how long now?

Tell me, why must they shake those spears in fierce disdain of what OUT years have taught us is the destined end? In quenchless hafe they shake their spears - for latter-day dreams reveal no friend.

Say, two thousand years.

Katahdin

Climbing Katahdin in 1964 I saw another mountain in the sky, a monstrous bulk I'd never glimpsed before. I reached the knife-edge, and looked up: once more that brutal mass loomed down to crush me, for it had a brow that overhung the sky. Thus, on Katahdin's peak in '64, I met the god who taught me I must die.

A&F?lSO?I

'I have never tried love,' old Adamson said. 'We've been told that above all things else, we must love -

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but when push comes to shove we seek glory instead. So, I've never known love: and soon, I'll be dead.'

Two He was skin-and-bones, she was fat.

They lived many years together placidly certain they knew what was what: she liked skin-and-bones, he liked fat and hating the world, gave it back tit for tat

Then the world broke his bones, and she melted her fat, as they kept close to home in foul weather.

and they went down under together.

'I'll say goodbye . . .' I'll say goodbye to the hope of fame,

and remember things that are close to home. If I say goodbye to the hope of fame, I'll be happy again in my quiet room free of the world in my love for you, dear woman. . . So goodbye to hope and fame!

goodbye to troubles, too,

(Goodbye to troubles, too.)

' I have been here &@ore . . .' I have been here before

when time stood still: through the half-opened door, just as before, I can see the pale hoar- frost gleam on the hill. I have been here before -

and time stands still.

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